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Deviance: Social Change and Control

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Deviant behaviour can be described as a departure from social customs, values, norms and rules in various social contexts.

When deviant behaviour occurs in a society—behaviour which flouts its basic values and norms—one element in its coming into being is a breakdown in social controls, those mechanisms which ordinarily operate to maintain valued forms of behaviour.

Howard S. Becker (1955)

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    Jo. M. Martins & Fei Guo

  2. Department of Sociology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, USA

    David A. Swanson

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Martins, J.M., Guo, F., Swanson, D.A. (2018). Deviance: Social Change and Control. In: Global Population in Transition. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77362-9_9

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